The Greggory in South Barrington was recently nominated as Best New Restaurant in the 2027 Banchet Awards. While suburban restaurants are eligible for Chicago’s most prestigious culinary awards, they are not frequently recognized.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s bestselling 2021 novel “Klara and the Sun” is a gentle, lovely book, and it needed to come to screen with the lightest of touches. Unfortunately, the new version directed by Taika Waititi never quite finds that delicacy.
When last we saw Téa Leoni on television, she had become the first female president of the United States after six seasons of the CBS drama “Madam Secretary”; seven years later, she’s teaching middle school science on an NBC sitcom, “Newlyweds,” in both cases married to Tim Daly, who is incidentally her real-life spouse.
Actor and director Joe Mantegna saw a young version of himself in Ronnie Marmo when the two first met about 20 years ago. Their collaboration and friendship blossomed again when Mantegna directed Marmo in the show that marked the grand opening of The Skokie, formerly The Skokie Theatre, on Oct. 8.
Halloween is on Saturday, Oct. 31, and over 100 towns in the suburbs have set trick-or-treating hours. Some towns also are hosting downtown trick-or-treating events.
Halloween is fast approaching and JoJo’s ShakeBAR in Naperville and Chuck E. Cheese locations have fun in store for all ages. Plus, a new Lou Malnati’s is opening in St. Charles and Elgin Community College is hosting a six-course benefit wine dinner.
Alexander Skarsgård, always up for any kind of particularly sexy challenge, plays the titular husband in “Wicker,” woven by a skilled Basket Maker (Peter Dinklage), at the behest of a lonely Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman), who lives in a terribly strange little village in a sort of vaguely medieval era.